election/doc/source/index.rst

StarlingX Election

process

StarlingX PL, TL and TSC Elections Timeline

Events	Start Date	End Date
TSC Nominations	October 01, 2024, 20:45 UTC	October 08, 2024, 20:45 UTC
TSC Campaign	October 08, 2024, 20:45 UTC	October 15, 2024, 20:45 UTC
TSC Election	October 15, 2024, 20:45 UTC	October 22, 2024, 20:45 UTC
PL/TL Nominations	October 01, 2024, 20:45 UTC	October 08, 2024, 20:45 UTC
PL/TL Election	October 15, 2024, 20:45 UTC	October 22, 2024, 20:45 UTC

See Election system, PLTL details and TSC details.

Election Officials

• Ildiko Vancsa (ildikov), ildiko at openstack dot org
• Abhishek Jaiswal (ajaiswal), Abhishek.Jaiswal at windriver dot com

For any questions, please contact officials by mail or on Matrix in the StarlingX-General room in the [#starlingx:opendev.org](https://matrix.to/#/#starlingx:opendev.org) space.

Election System

Elections will be held using CIVS and a Condorcet algorithm (Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD variant). Any tie will be broken using Governance_TieBreaking.

Election Process

The election process is outlined on the process page.

Electorate

The electorate for this election are individuals who earned the contributor status some time in the past 12 months prior to the nomination period starts as defined by the TSC charter document.

The electorate is requested to confirm their email address in gerrit, review.opendev.org > Settings > Contact Information > Preferred Email, prior to September 27, 2024 so that the emailed ballots are mailed to the correct email address.

The electorate is expected to abide by the following general resolution: https://docs.starlingx.io/governance/resolutions/20190520_election_activities.html

Candidates

Any member of an election electorate can propose their candidacy for the same election. Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the starlingx/election repository. See documentation below.

How to submit a candidacy

Each candidate must nominate themselves for each elected position, and are encouraged to submit their own candidacy to gerrit, although where appropriate, others may submit a candidacy for those who have already self-nominated by other means.

If you are not already familiar with StarlingX development workflow, see this more detailed documentation: https://docs.starlingx.io/contributor/index.html

Candidacies now need to be submitted as a text file to the starlingx/election repository. Here are the required steps:

• Clone the election repository: git clone https://opendev.org/starlingx/election.git ; cd election

• Create a new file candidates/<election_cycle>/<project_name>/<leadership_role>/<email_address> containing the candidate statement.

• Commit the candidacy: git add candidates/<election_cycle>/<project_name>/<leadership_role>/<email_address>; git commit

• In the text editor add a title like the following:

  Adding <your_name> candidacy for <project_name> <project_role> role

• Save the text and exit the text editor

• Submit your candidacy: git review

For example Dana Developer (ddev on IRC) would compose a platform in a file named "candidates/2020_H2/fault/pl/dana@inconnu.org" to submit a PL candidacy for the Fault Management project elections.

In case a candidate has difficulties with submitting their nomination to Gerrit they may ask a fellow contributor to upload the text file on behalf of them.

After the candidacy is submitted to gerrit, verification and approval will be performed by elections officials, followed by an update to the approved candidate list.

Technical Steering Committee's election

Elected Positions

Under the rules of the TSC charter, we need to renew 2 TSC seats for this election, and fill a currently empty seat. Seats are valid for one-year terms.

• Technical Steering Committee member - 3 positions

Electorate

The electorate for this election are individuals who earned the contributor status some time in the past 12 months prior to the nomination period starts as defined by the TSC charter document.

Candidates

Any contributor who is an individual member of the foundation can propose their candidacy.

Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the starlingx/election repository. The file must be placed in candidates/<electcycle>/TSC/<email_address>. The candidacy is then confirmed by elections officials through gerrit. See above How to submit a candidacy documentation.

Project Leads' and Technical Leads' election

Elected Positions

Every official project team must elect a PL and a TL. PLs and TLs are elected for a one year period.

Electorate

Except otherwise-noted in the project team description, the electorate for a given PL and TL election are the individuals that are also committers for one of the team's repositories over the past 12 months prior to the nomination period starts as defined by the TSC charter document.

Candidates

Any contributor who is an individual member of the foundation can propose their candidacy to run for PL.

Any contributor who is an individual member of the foundation and a core reviewer to the given project can propose their candidacy to run for TL of the given project.

Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the starlingx/election repository. The file must be placed in candidates/<electcycle>/<project_name>/<leadership_role>/<email_address>. The candidacy is then confirmed by elections officials through gerrit. See above How to submit a candidacy documentation.

See the Election Officiating Guidelines page in the wiki for details on the election process.